Come sit a spell...

Welcome to the Bay City General Store. We invite you to come and sit a spell. This chair is occupied at the moment with a variegated sweet potato vine but come on in and grab an RC Cola and a Moon Pie and watch the river go by from our shaded picnic table or one of our many retro vintage aluminum lawn chairs. Or better yet come and spend the weekend in one of our Bay City General Store Hotel rooms and relax from the balcony swing while watching the river roll by. Hope to see you real soon...

This rusty toolbox has seen better days but it makes a perfect container for these flowers and vines. It's resting on a primitive turquoise crock shelf with just the right amount of chippy paint and sitting out front of our general store in Bay City, Illinois.

What's cooking?

This old iron kettle once used to make soap is now host to sweet potato vines, pettunias and other purple flowers.